Clawsstar Jenn Lyon is married!
The actress tied the knot with longtime love,New York Timesvideo editor Taige Jensen on Saturday at theAstoria World Manorin Queens, New York.
“I’m looking forward to saying, ‘my husband.’ I’ve never said it before,” Lyon tells PEOPLE exclusively. I just always said like, ‘This is my boyfriend,’ or, ‘This is my true love,’ or whatever. It’ll be a great feeling, and I just look forward to sharing the rest of my life with him.”
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Lyon says the venue matched the couple’s “kitschy and weird” aesthetic. During her dance with her dad, fake snow fell over them. And at the reception, guests could get their names carved into pieces of fruit. Dinner included pasta, macaroni-and-cheese balls, fruits, cheeses and crab cakes, and their wedding cake from Brooklyn’s Betty Bakery was topped with golden Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs: one in a top hat, and one in a veil.
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The couple met 13 years ago while doing sketch comedy in Brooklyn. They had actually gotten engaged once before, but Lyon broke it off because she didn’t think marriage was for her. “As a little girl, I never dreamed of being married, it wasn’t something I felt was important,” she says. “I actually thought it was kind of archaic. I was like, this is an institution that women no longer need to be involved in and as a feminist I’m not interested.”
“He was so kind and considerate and loving and let me be exactly the person that I wanted to be and saw me through a terrible battle was eating disorders, saw me through float me when I was doing like theater jobs that didn’t pay anything ,and he just showed up and was like the man of my dreams and he had been there all along,” she says.
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But Lyon’s wedding look was almost not to be: Her dress was accidentally shipped to a drug store down the street from her home, and a manstole the box, called her and blackmailed her for $150, she says. Lyon called the police, who went with her to retrieve the gown.
“It was harrowing,” she admits of the experience. “It was just very bizarre, but also I’ve lived in New York for like 15 years, and so I just was kind of like, ‘Oh, N.YC.’ I was like, ‘Here we go … it’s just like another New York adventure.'”
She applauds the New York Police Department for their work, and the detectives who helped her ended up being invited to her wedding.
“They were both so great ,” she says. They were like, ‘Ah, I bet you never thought your something blue would be the NYPD.”
source: people.com
